#23

This week discussed some different types of forms within poetry and one of them happened to be found poems. Let say say that this type of form was not hard, I just did not like it at all. It was fun that our professor allowed some class time to experience how to write a found poem. I found that exercise very difficult. I was sitting in my seat completely lost. As I browsed through the magazine, I did find something that caught my eye but I could not write a thing about it. I think I probably come up with two lines at the most. I think do not have a creative mind. Why do I not like found poems? because they take words or phrases from other texts and reorder them and them present them as poems. I am very much in doubt about doing this because I am afraid of plagiarism. We have been told not to complete of paraphrase other people works with out quoting them and those things just stay stuck in my mind. Many poets have also chosen to incorporate snippets of found texts into larger poems. When poets write those snippets in there poems in their mind they think its helpful which it is, but For me and maybe its just me. I found them hard to follow. Because once I read the snippets I have to go back and reread the lines in the poem to get a better understanding. At times this can be very frustrating especially if you are reading something difficult and you don't already like such as that periodic table found poem in our packet this week.